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2024
27 post(s)

Git for Windows: long file path error _{105 word(s)} Dec 9
How to list partition names in Delta table using Apache Spark _{378 word(s)} Nov 22
Delta Lake in .NET - Start of a journey _{284 word(s)} Nov 11
Azure: Restricted Subnet IPs _{221 word(s)} Oct 16
Use Databricks secrets on Standard plan _{35 word(s)} Oct 9
Migrate Postgres database to next major version _{226 word(s)} Oct 8
UserLAnd: Connect from desktop _{467 word(s)} Aug 16
Integrate Lua into C++ _{1686 word(s)} Aug 2
Report False Positives to Anti-Virus Companies _{208 word(s)} Aug 2
Static variables in C++ - how weird are those? _{491 word(s)} Aug 1
WSL2: Disable IP v6 _{380 word(s)} Jul 10
How to remember untar command _{48 word(s)} Jul 10
RClone Quickstart for Azure Blobs _{34 word(s)} Jun 3
What's new in .NET 8 performance measuring and monitoring _{198 word(s)} Jun 2
Hyper-V USB Redirection _{130 word(s)} May 21
Blobfuse2 on Ubuntu 24.04 _{103 word(s)} May 16
List of UK countries, counties, cities and towns _{461 word(s)} Mar 13
Prince Harry Spare: Summary _{3717 word(s)} Feb 7
List, set, and dictionary complexity in Python _{423 word(s)} Feb 7
Why is it hard to find a tech job in January-February 2024? _{722 word(s)} Feb 6
sew and awk - what are those? _{730 word(s)} Feb 5
Unveiling the Power of Databricks: A Comprehensive Comparison with Other Alternatives _{479 word(s)} Feb 4
Exploring the Best C++ IDEs for Efficient Programming _{1336 word(s)} Feb 3
The coolest tricks you can do with cURL _{132 word(s)} Jan 30
Apache Kafka vs Azure Event Hubs: which one to use? _{1752 word(s)} Jan 29
Adding full READ access for a user to a PostreSQL database _{223 word(s)} Jan 17
Ultimate Dev Tools List for 2024 _{2413 word(s)} Jan 1

2023
44 post(s)

Visual Studio Shortcut: Debug Last Unit Test _{397 word(s)} Dec 14
AWS CLI S3 Command FAQ _{73 word(s)} Oct 6
How to convert .parquet to JSON with Python _{113 word(s)} Sep 11
Linux: Get List of available RAM _{141 word(s)} Aug 17
Performance difference between stackalloc, new byte[] and rented buffers in C# _{127 word(s)} Aug 14
How to Open TCP Remote Access to Docker _{591 word(s)} Aug 11
How to Generate a Public SSH Key for Windows and Linux _{373 word(s)} Aug 10
Amazon Deequ and AWS Glue Data Quality: What's the difference? _{611 word(s)} Aug 10
Monoids in Mathematics _{459 word(s)} Aug 10
Creating a PostgreSQL Database, User, and Assigning Ownership _{290 word(s)} Aug 9
Exploring Apache Spark's RDDs, DataFrames, and Datasets: Usage and Performance Comparison _{1575 word(s)} Aug 7
Understanding Apache Spark's mapPartitions function _{1483 word(s)} Aug 6
Harnessing the Power of Apache Spark's flatMap and reduceByKey Functions _{1338 word(s)} Aug 5
I love GitHub's PR reviews with VS Code! _{192 word(s)} Jul 22
Running Kasm with Root access _{89 word(s)} Jul 20
Visual Studio: Switch Between Split Panes _{101 word(s)} Jul 18
Using Blobfuse2 to access Azure Storage like a folder from Windows _{262 word(s)} Jul 14
I've Made Another Virus! _{582 word(s)} Jun 27
Browser Tamer Scoping _{445 word(s)} Jun 27
Introducing Browser Tamer: Unleashing the Power of Open Source _{622 word(s)} Jun 26
If depends.exe (Dependency Walker) Hangs _{224 word(s)} Jun 21
Quick Tip: Base64 Encode and Decode in the Terminal _{409 word(s)} Jun 20
Browser Tamer Metrics Window _{203 word(s)} May 22
Parquet Net 4.12.0 Performance _{120 word(s)} May 21
Turn Your .NET Worker Service into an Awesome Linux Systemd Service - Here's How! _{887 word(s)} May 15
Flatten Map Spark Python _{1427 word(s)} May 14
Windows Installers: EXE vs MSI _{765 word(s)} May 3
Improving Parquet.Net Thrift Performance _{2311 word(s)} Apr 22
Parquet: Different in Encoding Null lists vs Empty lists _{389 word(s)} Apr 17
Speed Reading Techniques, Tips and Tricks _{2162 word(s)} Mar 31
Edge Compose (ChatGPT) Fullscreen View _{372 word(s)} Mar 30
Terminate Win32 Process _{229 word(s)} Mar 29
Should I use Mongo DB API or Cosmos SQL API in Azure Cosmos DB? _{1657 word(s)} Mar 25
How to Purge Azure CDN Cache from GitHub Actions _{1030 word(s)} Mar 22
Will AI Event Succeed and Replace Humans _{537 word(s)} Mar 15
C# Expression Trees Cookbook _{1521 word(s)} Mar 6
How to get Process Uptime in Windows _{356 word(s)} Feb 24
Calculate String Min Max Effectively _{286 word(s)} Jan 14
What's new in .NET 7 Performance Measuring and Monitoring _{628 word(s)} Jan 11
HashSet Initialisation Speed in C# _{259 word(s)} Jan 5
Parquet.Net 4.1.3 vs Parquet.Sharp 8.0.0 Performance _{1443 word(s)} Jan 4
Browser Tamer Usage is Growing _{179 word(s)} Jan 3
typename vs class in C++ _{649 word(s)} Jan 2
Ultimate Dev Tools List for 2023 _{1631 word(s)} Jan 1

2022
68 post(s)

Launch Windows Sandbox with Winget Enabled _{300 word(s)} Dec 23
Is It Faster to Enumerate an Array With "foreach" or "for" in C#? _{954 word(s)} Dec 22
PySpark: Clean Map With UDF _{153 word(s)} Dec 21
Making Pydeequ Work _{192 word(s)} Dec 20
ImGui Rounded Image _{70 word(s)} Dec 19
C++ `<chrono>` for Dummies _{1141 word(s)} Dec 18
C# Classes and Structs Efficiency _{471 word(s)} Dec 17
What Is a Percentile in Simple Words _{338 word(s)} Dec 16
Jupyter (JupyterLab) Unattended Service _{142 word(s)} Dec 15
Browser Tamer has it's Own Virus Kind! _{188 word(s)} Dec 15
How to make PDF files always open in the same Chrome (Edge/Brave/etc/) profile _{118 word(s)} Dec 14
Add Months to Date in Python _{364 word(s)} Dec 14
Spark Standalone Server Hosted in Ubuntu Linux _{216 word(s)} Dec 14
Rounded Corners in Win32 Windows _{43 word(s)} Dec 13
Browser Tamer Themes _{47 word(s)} Dec 8
Discovering Chrome(ium) Profiles on Windows PC _{195 word(s)} Dec 7
Browser Tamer support High DPI _{34 word(s)} Nov 18
Performance Measuring and Monitoring for .NET 6 Applications _{214 word(s)} Oct 31
Using Cryptography Next Generation instead of OpenSSL _{374 word(s)} Oct 21
Three Ways to List Named Pipes in Windows _{187 word(s)} Sep 28
Install .NET 6 runtime on clean Alpine Linux _{431 word(s)} Sep 23
Stress Testing with cURL _{667 word(s)} Sep 14
Find File Recursively in Powershell _{390 word(s)} Sep 13
Pretending WSL commands are native to Powershell _{182 word(s)} Sep 2
Tracing vs Logging Performance in .NET 6 _{332 word(s)} Sep 2
.csproj (.NET SDK Projects) Condition Cheat Sheet _{241 word(s)} Aug 3
Is Browser Tamer a Malware? _{439 word(s)} Jul 6
SQL COUNT statement (other than COUNT(*)) _{45 word(s)} Jun 27
Databricks-Connect Error _{340 word(s)} Jun 23
How to Get Spark Scala Version _{63 word(s)} Jun 22
Spark does NOT Support Azure Append Blobs and there's no workaround _{67 word(s)} Jun 16
Browser Tamer Tree Interface _{90 word(s)} Jun 12
Flatten Spark Dataframe in Scala _{102 word(s)} Jun 11
Disposable MS Teams Window _{178 word(s)} Jun 10
Install Maven .jar Dependencies from Jupyter Python Spark Notebook _{343 word(s)} Jun 10
Cannot Connect to Local Postgres from DataGrip/IntelliJ? _{89 word(s)} May 27
VS Install Size Is Actually Small _{46 word(s)} May 27
Scala: Mind Map _{41 word(s)} May 27
Scala Regex is so Easy! _{32 word(s)} May 25
Java java.time.Instant Parser with Fallback _{100 word(s)} May 24
Java Optionals: Mind Map _{0 word(s)} May 19
Bye Bye Scoop _{160 word(s)} May 9
Writing to Delta Table with Spark 3 (much easier!) _{31 word(s)} May 5
NSIS: Bare Minimum to Get A Job Done _{143 word(s)} Apr 29
Databricks: Force JRE 11 _{52 word(s)} Apr 28
More Issues with Scoop _{472 word(s)} Apr 14
Access DBUtils from Scala app running under databricks-connect _{63 word(s)} Apr 8
SSH: Use Dedicated SSH Key for a Git Host _{174 word(s)} Apr 5
Scoop and Shims _{311 word(s)} Apr 5
Face Detection with OpenCV (for complete Dummies) _{328 word(s)} Mar 23
List of Age Discrimination Cases in Software Industry _{146 word(s)} Mar 19
Chrome Extension Development in JetBrains IDE _{14 word(s)} Mar 18
Recruiters! We Were Always Remote! _{458 word(s)} Mar 17
Where to get Hadoop Winutils _{702 word(s)} Mar 16
GPG Usage Scenarios _{127 word(s)} Mar 8
Reading Files Recursively in Spark/Databricks _{203 word(s)} Mar 7
C++: format time in ISO-8601 _{144 word(s)} Mar 4
.NET No Bullshit Assembly Signing Instructions _{72 word(s)} Feb 11
Best Books to Learn Kotlin in 2022 _{303 word(s)} Jan 27
WSL: Start from Real Home _{38 word(s)} Jan 27
Get S3 filesystem details using PySpark _{125 word(s)} Jan 26
Linux Date: Suppress Zeros in Formatting _{53 word(s)} Jan 11
Spark: Add or Remove Struct Member/Field _{168 word(s)} Jan 6
Spark: Union Incompatible Dataframes _{135 word(s)} Jan 5
Spark Union in Pythonic Way _{61 word(s)} Jan 4
Spark: Check Table Exists Quickly _{43 word(s)} Jan 3
Spark DataFrame: Display Last Columns _{49 word(s)} Jan 2
Reshuffle Schema Columns in Spark DataFrame _{196 word(s)} Jan 1

2021
114 post(s)

Set up Standalone Scala SBT Application with Delta Lake _{220 word(s)} Dec 14
My CMake Cheat Sheet (Updated Regularly) _{601 word(s)} Dec 12
VIM: My Personal Cheat Sheet _{1406 word(s)} Dec 12
C++ 17: Mandatory Copy Elision _{96 word(s)} Dec 11
Azure Pipelines: Export Variable Group via API _{76 word(s)} Dec 10
Visual Studio 2022: Work with PRs locally After Functionality Was Removed _{205 word(s)} Dec 9
Random: Imgui Implot Fps _{18 word(s)} Dec 6
C++: lvalue/rvalue for Complete Dummies _{1507 word(s)} Dec 4
C++ 17: Aggregate Improvements _{133 word(s)} Dec 3
C++ 17: IF and SWITCH With Initialisation _{231 word(s)} Dec 2
C++ 17: Structured Binding - From Zero to Hero _{570 word(s)} Dec 1
Big List of C++ GUI Frameworks _{7091 word(s)} Nov 24
ssh-copy-id for Windows _{28 word(s)} Nov 22
Upgrade WSL2 Ubuntu to 21.04 _{46 word(s)} Nov 19
Scoop - Switch to Better Shim _{12 word(s)} Nov 18
How to make Visual Studio 2022 Hot Reload Actually Work in CMake Projects _{289 word(s)} Nov 10
CMake: Add Application Icon on Windows _{82 word(s)} Nov 7
The Most Userful, Completely Interactive ImGui Manual _{39 word(s)} Nov 6
Spark - Export DataFrame Schema, and then Import it Later. _{64 word(s)} Nov 5
Set Databricks Table Description From Code _{104 word(s)} Nov 4
Spark: Print DataFrame Schema Metadata _{42 word(s)} Nov 3
Use wmain in CMake for Windows _{62 word(s)} Nov 2
Use Boost from CMake in vcpkg project _{26 word(s)} Nov 1
Create Apache Spark DataFrame in memory _{95 word(s)} Oct 22
Databricks - Access via Service Principal _{343 word(s)} Oct 21
Databricks - Setting up Custom External Hive Metastore in Azure using MSSQL Server _{4022 word(s)} Oct 21
Installing an Extra Instance of Visual Studio (same edition) _{415 word(s)} Oct 15
Decrypt Camunda Sealed Object in Scala _{132 word(s)} Oct 4
How to Deserialize java.util.ArrayList from Scala _{70 word(s)} Oct 1
How Can a Process Break Away from a Job in Windows _{101 word(s)} Sep 29
Thoughts on Rust at First, but then Ramblings on Top Programming Languages _{896 word(s)} Sep 28
Vim: Toggle Comments (any language) _{22 word(s)} Sep 20
Set Table Property (Metadata) in Spark or Databricks _{105 word(s)} Sep 17
Format JSON in Vim _{96 word(s)} Sep 14
Use Bat, Not Cat! _{52 word(s)} Sep 9
Copy File to Clipboard in Windows _{20 word(s)} Sep 9
venv for Dummies _{138 word(s)} Sep 9
JetBrains: Portable Installation _{253 word(s)} Sep 3
Databricks: Excessive Storage Usage _{144 word(s)} Sep 2
Spark: Add or Remove a Column from a DataFrame _{204 word(s)} Jul 30
Self-Managing Databricks Groups With Databricks Itself _{1043 word(s)} Jul 20
Mitsubishi Outlander 2019: Drive Stats _{47 word(s)} Jul 18
Windows: Get Version Resource _{203 word(s)} Jul 18
C++ Requests: Curl for People _{321 word(s)} Jul 17
Convert .svg to .ico ImageMagick _{36 word(s)} Jul 16
Open Default Apps (or Any Other Settings) in Windows 10 _{114 word(s)} Jul 15
Diet Coke in a Freezer - Just Don't Do It! _{0 word(s)} Jul 13
Create Tables From Folder in Databricks _{54 word(s)} Jul 13
Making PSReadLine Even Cooler _{47 word(s)} Jul 10
Replace Filename Extension (C++17) _{38 word(s)} Jul 8
Notepad++ - Open Folder _{54 word(s)} Jul 7
Lego Technic - Porsche 911 _{77 word(s)} Jul 7
C++ and JSON _{35 word(s)} Jul 5
Trim String Characters With Boost Lambda _{39 word(s)} Jul 2
Updating Environment Variables in the Current Powershell Session _{283 word(s)} Jul 2
Read Windows Registry with C++ _{523 word(s)} Jul 1
Getting Info About Spark Partitions _{690 word(s)} Jun 28
Split View in MS Word _{4 word(s)} Jun 24
LocalDB from DataGrip and Python _{119 word(s)} Jun 21
Batch-inviting users with Powershell to Azure Active Directory _{213 word(s)} Jun 17
Customising Office Install (Windows 10) _{640 word(s)} Jun 16
Migrating out of Conda on Windows 10 _{457 word(s)} Jun 9
Key Exchange - Links _{38 word(s)} Jun 2
C#/.NET Method Call Performance - Facts _{524 word(s)} May 28
Cross Platform Way to get Parent Path _{6 word(s)} May 28
Cross Platform Way to get Absolute Path _{769 word(s)} May 27
Installing Keycloak on Alpine Linux docker image _{212 word(s)} May 27
Python Slices _{373 word(s)} May 11
Python: Named Tuples and Dataclasses _{185 word(s)} May 6
Iterating Multiple Collections at once in Python _{228 word(s)} May 6
Working with Spark on R Studio _{114 word(s)} Apr 28
SQL Analytics Permissions Explained _{186 word(s)} Apr 23
Azure CLI Key Vault Management Intro (Show/Set Secrets etc.) _{283 word(s)} Apr 22
IntelliJ IDEA - Simplest White Markdown Theme _{185 word(s)} Apr 20
Azure - add IAM Role Assignment with no AAD permissions with Azure CLI _{138 word(s)} Apr 14
Python: Execute Shell Command _{82 word(s)} Apr 8
Debug Anything in .NET _{1048 word(s)} Mar 31
Pretty Print Time Difference in Python _{41 word(s)} Mar 29
Short and to the Point: Test SQS from AWS CLI _{82 word(s)} Mar 19
Detecting if a Pipeline is running from a master/main branch in Azure Pipelines _{48 word(s)} Mar 16
Automating Databricks with Bash _{488 word(s)} Mar 15
Connect from Spark to AWS S3 via Assume Role credential _{247 word(s)} Mar 10
.NET Platform Conditional Tags in .csproj _{89 word(s)} Mar 8
.NET Standard Preprocessor Directives _{245 word(s)} Mar 5
Map of Azure Functions Runtimes _{12 word(s)} Mar 5
Creating Scala Uber JAR with Spark 3.1 Included _{398 word(s)} Mar 5
TechMeme Ride Home _{105 word(s)} Mar 4
Listing Spark Databases and Tables Fast _{93 word(s)} Mar 4
Using Python's WITH keyword conditionally _{67 word(s)} Mar 4
Visual Assist X - Extend Trial _{295 word(s)} Mar 1
.NET: XmlReader vs Linq to XML Performance _{581 word(s)} Feb 25
AWS S3 Raw Authentication written in C# _{855 word(s)} Feb 24
Python Lists: Quick Refresher _{0 word(s)} Feb 22
Tip: Check if List Contains a Substring in Python _{47 word(s)} Feb 19
Parsing Array of Strings in Spark _{501 word(s)} Feb 18
Dear UI _{693 word(s)} Feb 17
Particle JS _{16 word(s)} Feb 16
Quick Start with Elasticsearch on AWS _{152 word(s)} Feb 15
Run Scala/SBT via Databricks Connect from Azure Pipelines _{116 word(s)} Feb 12
Yahalom _{92 word(s)} Feb 11
Wide Mouth Frog _{428 word(s)} Feb 11
Adding Any Constraint you want with AWS Deequ _{322 word(s)} Feb 10
Using Deequ 1.1 with Spark 3 _{129 word(s)} Feb 10
Get Current Notebook Name in Databricks _{217 word(s)} Feb 10
Spark Host Configuration is Rejected in Spark 3 _{44 word(s)} Feb 9
Get Current User in Databricks _{84 word(s)} Feb 8
DPI Aware Windows app with CMake _{222 word(s)} Feb 8
Using Secrets From Databricks Connect _{79 word(s)} Feb 5
Print Databricks Secret _{21 word(s)} Feb 5
Change Timestamp Year in Spark _{115 word(s)} Feb 3
C++ Smart Pointers Quick Refresher _{0 word(s)} Feb 1
Powershell Cmdlet to Create a New Hugo Post _{63 word(s)} Jan 29
Learning Rust _{160 word(s)} Jan 14
Python Exceptions _{0 word(s)} Jan 5

2020
7 post(s)

Windows' Built-In Process Limiter _{166 word(s)} Dec 15
Downloading UK Postcode Database (Open Postcode) into Spark _{201 word(s)} Nov 10
How to read CSV data from memory in Apache Spark _{215 word(s)} Oct 6
Tips and Tricks for using Python with Databricks Connect _{1434 word(s)} Oct 6
Setting up Scala for Spark Development _{200 word(s)} Oct 5
CNG is slow? _{283 word(s)} May 28
Perfect CI/CD with Azure Pipelines _{1636 word(s)} Feb 6

2019
2 post(s)

Setting up FTP server on Microsoft Azure _{446 word(s)} Feb 18
This Developers Life _{422 word(s)} Feb 16

2018
1 post(s)

Azure Service Fabric Rocks! _{113 word(s)} Feb 10

2017
2 post(s)

100 C# Interview Questions _{4998 word(s)} Jul 7
C# Interview Questions _{2442 word(s)} Jul 6

2016
9 post(s)

Powerful Search & Replace in Visual Studio _{109 word(s)} Aug 31
Synchronising two SQL Server instances (one way, or potentially both) _{1079 word(s)} Aug 22
VSTS / TFS trigger build only on push to Git subfolder _{78 word(s)} Jun 16
Android Sucks Less _{174 word(s)} May 25
Why are we so obsessed about Microservice architecture? _{753 word(s)} Apr 25
Create Azure Cloud Service in a specific Resource Group from PowerShell _{398 word(s)} Apr 22
Using Open Live Writer on Surface Book _{104 word(s)} Apr 22
Open public ports in Azure VM on a New Portal _{626 word(s)} Jan 25
Unit Testing internal classes _{334 word(s)} Jan 24

2015
4 post(s)

Lightweight Logging Library for .NET _{97 word(s)} Dec 18
Why you don’t need ReSharper to be productive _{1466 word(s)} Dec 18
Why Automapping is bad for you _{1304 word(s)} Dec 2
How to give Azure Active Directory application access to manage your Directory _{450 word(s)} Dec 1